Wymond Bradbury, I - Site of his burial

Начал William Henry Thoms, Jr четверг, 18 апреля 2019
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18.4.2019 в 6:24 до полудня

I had visited Nevis a number of times before I realized that Wymond, an 8gr-grandparent, had died there in 1669. This at at time in Nevisian history that marked the beginning of its economic heyday, with thousands of African slaves being imported to work in the sugar plantations. No doubt the voyage Wymond took was a trading mission, perhaps to sell dried codfish in exchange for molasses to make rum with - part of the Slave Triangle trade. The photo I posted in the media section is of the oldest graveyard in Nevis, at the St Thomas Lowlands Anglican Church. I searched the graveyard, which has graves going back to the 1640s, but did not find Wymond's. As a transient sailor, he probably was given a perfunctory burial, without an engraved stone marker. This site is near to the site of the former chief settlement and port on Nevis, Jamestown, which was devastated in an earthquake and subsequent tsunami on April 10, 1690. Portions of the town sank into the sea and the settlement was relocated to present day Charlestown.

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